QP Library

The QP Library contains links to a comprehensive range of publications, journal articles and other documents on the Resource Management Act and planning.

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Air quality
Climate change
Coastal and marine areas
Communities
Consultation
Culture and heritage
Energy
Enforcement
Environmental monitoring and reporting
Hazards
Infrastructure
Legislation
Maori and treaty
Natural environment
Planning
Regional information
Resource consents
Rural areas
Sustainable development
Tourism
Urban areas
- Alternative Transport
- Cities
- Density
- Housing
- Peri-urban areas
- Public spaces
  - People, Places, Spaces: A design guide for urban New Zealand
    Published by Ministry for the Environment - June 2001
    This guide provides a broad overview of urban design processes and principles appropriate to New Zealand. It seeks to increase awareness and discussion of the role and value of urban design, what i...
  - Toward a Methodology for Measuring the Security of Publicly Accessible Spaces
    Published September 2007
    This article discusses security in public spaces, focusing on the approaches of laws and rules, surveillance and policing, design and image, and access and territoriality in order to develop an ind...
- Residential areas
- Retail
- Subdivision
- Urban Regeneration
- Urban amenity
- Urban community
- Urban design
- Urban development
- Urban growth
Waste
Water

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